Tuesday, December 2, 2014

PA Escapee Captured on ME Turnpike - Wells

NEWS
RELEASE from the Maine Department of Public Safety

from
Spokesman Steve McCausland - 626-3811

State
Police say an escapee from a Pennsylvania jail was arrested on the Maine
Turnpike early Monday morning. Derek Lee Black, 34, of Albion, PA was a
passenger in a car driven by a Bangor woman which was stopped about 4
a.m. on the turnpike by the Ogunquit-Wells
town line. Black had been missing since March from a correctional
facility in Erie, PA.

Trooper
Richard Maguire pulled the car over for an expired registration
and when Black was questioned, he gave the trooper a false name.
The car’s driver, 26 year old Mindy Baxter of
Bangor, also told the trooper she did not know her passenger’s full name.

Black
was arrested for failing to give a correct
name. An FBI fingerprint check of him at the York County Jail later revealed his true identity. Black had
been jailed in Pennsylvania on drug charges and
disappeared from a hospital in March where he had been taken for a facial
cut. Arrangements are now being made to return him to Pennsylvania
to face escape charges.

Baxter
was summonsed for operating a vehicle with a restricted license.